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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, showing a cleared lot, ca.1924
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View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, showing a cleared lot, ca.1924
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Description
Photograph of a view of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, showing a cleared lot, ca.1924. Automobiles and a bus make their way down the street at left, while at the right, traffic appears to be much lighter, and the two-story brick hospital buidling can be seen. Farther down the street, directly adjacent to this, a vacan lot is visible. Utility poles and other one-story commercial buildings line the street. To the far left, a large truck for the Daley's Grocery Store is parked, its back covered by tarp.; Legible signs from left to right include: "Daley's Chain Store Grocers", "Rexall Drugs. Soda", "Cigars", "Belvedere Gardens Express Transfer Co.", "Laer's Service Stations", "Sewing Machines", "[...] Club Ginger Ale", "Tires", "Tubes", "The Gazette Painting", "[...]obley Reality Co.", "Maximo Bakery. Hot Lunches, Tobacco & Cigars", "For Gentlemen of Good Taste, Try an Elverso Sometime. 2 for 15 cents", "Elwin Witt Ames, M.D., Physician & Surgeon", "Frank M. Wilson, M.D., Physician & Surgeon", and "Belvedere Gardens Department Store: Furnishing for Men, Women, Children and the Home".
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Ocean View Avenue, showing a cleared lot, ca.1924
Subject
Los Angeles County -- Whittier -- Streets
(file heading),
roadways
(adlf),
Streets
(lcsh),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Belvedere Gardens
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Ocean View Avenue
(roadway),
USA
(countries),
Whittier
(city or populated place),
Whittier Boulevard
(roadway)
Temporal Subject
1924
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1924
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6808
Identifier
9058 (
accession number
), CHS-9058 (
call number
), CHS-9058 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-6868 (
legacy record id
), chs-m6808 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-6922 (
legacy record id
), 1-58- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
6868
Unique identifier
UC121778
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9058.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.8 in × 14.4 in at 300dpi
53.0 cm × 36.5 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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